Imagine you are digging through a legacy codebase, and you stumble upon a comment like this:
**Please do not touch this line. Everything breaks if you delete it. Just leave it alone**
If you are a human developer, you know exactly what to do. You don’t try to be a hero. You don’t ask questions. You just back away slowly and let it run, because you respect the unwritten rules of software engineering.
But what happens when you hand that same file over to an AI coding tool?
The AI scans the syntax, completely ignores the human warning, and thinks: “This block is highly inefficient. Let me refactor it to match clean-code textbook standards.”
